Since you brought up Apples, Gordon.....

I will admit to one of my favorite High Touch activities: Apple Picking. Last fall, I rediscovered a treasure from my childhood in New Jersey and introduced it to my children.

We pick apples in Tehachapi, California. You can get tons of apples at rock bottom prices and my girls can climb the trees just like I did as a child!

My Mom taught a classroom of Severely Emotionally Disturbed kids from the tenements in Newark, NJ and we would drive out to the country and go apple picking. You should have seen their faces as they saw the apples on the trees...and picked them off the branches...and ate them!

My kids looked just as delighted last year.

And then I discovered I could make home made applesauce in my crock pot that not only TASTES delicious, but makes the whole HOUSE smell good!
My intention this year is to get together with some of my women friends who unfortunately still work 8-5 and drive to Tehachapi with a whole group, kidlets and all, and then come back to my house and peel and cut apples and make homemade applesauce. Imagine the Inter-Generational bonding that will happen!

Don't even get me started on what I discovered about pumpkins last year...I will save that for November.....

*Sighing in Contented Delight*

JULIE




Life is truly, truly but a Dream!